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Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) proposes that fast instinctive decision making promotes cooperation in social dilemmas. In this paper …, we conduct a novel time-pressure experiment to shed light on the cognitive underpinnings of cooperation. Although we find … finding that fast and intuitive decision making promotes cooperation. Given payoff comprehension, the SHH predicts behavior …
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We experimentally investigate behavior and beliefs in a sequential prisoner's dilemma. Each subject had to choose an action as first-mover and a conditional action as second-mover. All subjects also had to state their beliefs about others' second-mover choices. We find that subjects' beliefs...
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artificial intelligence may or may not be cooperative. We study the deter-minants and forms of algorithmic cooperation in the … prisoner’s dilemma games played by humans in the lab. We find that the same factors that increase human cooperation largely … also determine the cooperation rates of algorithms. However, algorithms tend to play different strategies than humans …
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Existing experimental research on behavior in weakest-link games shows overwhelmingly the inability of people to coordinate on the efficient equilibrium, especially in larger groups. We hypothesize that people will be able to coordinate on efficient outcomes, provided they have sufficient...
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We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...
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cooperation? This paper investigates the possibility that a small deceptive act of misrepresenting some information about one … cooperation level by approximately 12-13 percentage points. Not only that the average catfisher was substantially more likely to …-term opportunities to misrepresent one’s identity to others can potentially be extremely harmful to later human cooperation and the …
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We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying rates at which a group grows. Using a laboratory … cooperation. We then study the effect on cooperation of exogenously varying rates of entry. Slow growth yields higher cooperation … endogenous growth generally also produces high cooperation levels, growth stalls at intermediate group sizes, leaving potential …
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exist in work teams. Our results show that the introduction of a team allocator leads to pronounced cooperation in both …
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We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …
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cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People …
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